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A NON-PARTISAN, FORCE OF 5000 CONSTRUCTIVE CITIZENS
WORKING WITH YOU FOR A BETTER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Vol. XLVII, No. 25
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1957
25c per Copy. Page 149
MORE LIGHT NEEDED ON DRIDGE REPORT
"Package deal" for both bridges would result in
tolls for many years; City questions reason for
large increase in parallel bridge cost estimates
A favorite device of Father
when he wants to discourage
Sonny from buying a new hot rod,
is to say, "You don't want that
thing. The price is much too
high."
Report Has This Flavor
The State Highway Commission's
recommendation respecting the new
Lake Washington bridge has this flavor, in the eyes of bystanders. While
the cost estimate for the Evergreen
Point bridge (which the Highway
Commission wants) has gone up only
22M per cent, in several years, the estimate for the Parallel bridge (which the
State doesn't favor) goes up 79/2 per
cent. It appears as though Father
George Washington doesn't want
Sonny Seattle to have the Parallel
bridge. Maybe a clarifying explanation
will be forthcoming from the Highway
Commission as to the reason for the
enormous increase in the Parallel
bridge cost.
The League's large Lake Washington Bridge Committee, which has been
studying this project for several years,
asked Col. Marmion D. Mills, of Bain-
bridge Island, nationally known transportation expert, to analyze the recent
Coverdale and Colpitts report. This
firm of eminent engineers was employed by the State to determine the
financial feasibility of the proposed
Evergreen Point and Parallel bridges
respectively. Recently it issued a summary of its complete report which will
be released soon. It presented these
conclusions which were approved by
the State Highway Commission.
Evergreen Bridge Comes First
1. Neither the Evergreen Point nor
Parallel bridges are financially feasible
individually.
2. But if the Evergreen Point bridge
is constructed first from tolls imposed
on the present bridge and later on
from the new Evergreen Point bridge,
then later the Parallel bridge can be
financed from the same source. It made
these conclusions based on cost estimates of the two bridges furnished by
the State Highway Commission. The
tolls on both bridges probably would
run until the 1990's.
ALL-MEMBER MEETING
All League members are invited to
attend the December 2 luncheon
meeting at the Washington Athletic
Club. Mr. Norman G. M. Prichard,
distinguished member of the London
County Council will speak on the solution of metropolitan problems in
greater London.
Guests of League members will also
be welcome at the meeting. Please
phone your reservations to the
League office, MAin 8333, or, if you
prefer, send a card to 431 Lyon Building, Seattle 4.
In his interpretation of the Cover-
dale and Colpitts report, Colonel Mills
pointed out that it gave a 22/2 per cent
cost increase for the Evergreen Point
bridge over the estimate in the De-
Leuw and Cather engineering report
made several years ago. ($26.5 million
to $32.4 million.) It gave a 79 per cent
increase in the cost of the Parallel
bridge over the same period. ($35.5
million to $63.7 million.) Colonel Mills
points out that if the Evergreen bridge
is constructed first, "some time around
1973 ... a Parallel project might hope
to get under way, and it would certainly appear that tolls, once reim-
posed on the present bridge, would be
here for many, many years."
It's a Curious Package
Then the Colonel suggests that if
the cost estimate for the Parallel bridge
was only increased by the same 22M per
cent as that for the Evergreen Point
bridge, its could would be about $47
million which he thought could be financed from tolls on the present
bridge.
Regarding the State Highway calling this a "package deal" by including
both bridges, Colonel Mills points out,
"Coverdale and Colpitts made no reference, that I can find, to any so-called
package deal' other than their statement, 'The Evergreen Point project
would be built as a toll bridge with
tolls also reimposed on the existing
bridge. Subsequently, when Federal
funds become available to assist in the
construction of the approaches, and
( Continued on Page 150)

A NON-PARTISAN, FORCE OF 5000 CONSTRUCTIVE CITIZENS
WORKING WITH YOU FOR A BETTER LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Vol. XLVII, No. 25
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1957
25c per Copy. Page 149
MORE LIGHT NEEDED ON DRIDGE REPORT
"Package deal" for both bridges would result in
tolls for many years; City questions reason for
large increase in parallel bridge cost estimates
A favorite device of Father
when he wants to discourage
Sonny from buying a new hot rod,
is to say, "You don't want that
thing. The price is much too
high."
Report Has This Flavor
The State Highway Commission's
recommendation respecting the new
Lake Washington bridge has this flavor, in the eyes of bystanders. While
the cost estimate for the Evergreen
Point bridge (which the Highway
Commission wants) has gone up only
22M per cent, in several years, the estimate for the Parallel bridge (which the
State doesn't favor) goes up 79/2 per
cent. It appears as though Father
George Washington doesn't want
Sonny Seattle to have the Parallel
bridge. Maybe a clarifying explanation
will be forthcoming from the Highway
Commission as to the reason for the
enormous increase in the Parallel
bridge cost.
The League's large Lake Washington Bridge Committee, which has been
studying this project for several years,
asked Col. Marmion D. Mills, of Bain-
bridge Island, nationally known transportation expert, to analyze the recent
Coverdale and Colpitts report. This
firm of eminent engineers was employed by the State to determine the
financial feasibility of the proposed
Evergreen Point and Parallel bridges
respectively. Recently it issued a summary of its complete report which will
be released soon. It presented these
conclusions which were approved by
the State Highway Commission.
Evergreen Bridge Comes First
1. Neither the Evergreen Point nor
Parallel bridges are financially feasible
individually.
2. But if the Evergreen Point bridge
is constructed first from tolls imposed
on the present bridge and later on
from the new Evergreen Point bridge,
then later the Parallel bridge can be
financed from the same source. It made
these conclusions based on cost estimates of the two bridges furnished by
the State Highway Commission. The
tolls on both bridges probably would
run until the 1990's.
ALL-MEMBER MEETING
All League members are invited to
attend the December 2 luncheon
meeting at the Washington Athletic
Club. Mr. Norman G. M. Prichard,
distinguished member of the London
County Council will speak on the solution of metropolitan problems in
greater London.
Guests of League members will also
be welcome at the meeting. Please
phone your reservations to the
League office, MAin 8333, or, if you
prefer, send a card to 431 Lyon Building, Seattle 4.
In his interpretation of the Cover-
dale and Colpitts report, Colonel Mills
pointed out that it gave a 22/2 per cent
cost increase for the Evergreen Point
bridge over the estimate in the De-
Leuw and Cather engineering report
made several years ago. ($26.5 million
to $32.4 million.) It gave a 79 per cent
increase in the cost of the Parallel
bridge over the same period. ($35.5
million to $63.7 million.) Colonel Mills
points out that if the Evergreen bridge
is constructed first, "some time around
1973 ... a Parallel project might hope
to get under way, and it would certainly appear that tolls, once reim-
posed on the present bridge, would be
here for many, many years."
It's a Curious Package
Then the Colonel suggests that if
the cost estimate for the Parallel bridge
was only increased by the same 22M per
cent as that for the Evergreen Point
bridge, its could would be about $47
million which he thought could be financed from tolls on the present
bridge.
Regarding the State Highway calling this a "package deal" by including
both bridges, Colonel Mills points out,
"Coverdale and Colpitts made no reference, that I can find, to any so-called
package deal' other than their statement, 'The Evergreen Point project
would be built as a toll bridge with
tolls also reimposed on the existing
bridge. Subsequently, when Federal
funds become available to assist in the
construction of the approaches, and
( Continued on Page 150)